+1 on Nature Boy

I saw him at the beginning of the Stripped tour and he seemed a little lost, and slow. Then saw him at Wembley toward the end of that tour and he was on fire… better even than Dress to Kill. I need to get the Stripped DVD if it is even close to the Wembley show.

Chow-DAH! CHOW-DAH!

Running, trotting, walking, staggering. It's a hell of a feat and it shows that the guy is determined like few people anywhere. And for a good cause. Everyone's human but I can't disrespect a man clearly that smart, funny, respectful of his audience, and at the same time clearly VERY proud and egotistical. It's the…

Yeah, but in my town, in my favorite venue, on my birthday? Might have to go to this…

All I want is to be a happy man.
I hope on some other plane of existence he's found all he wanted. What a fine writer and distinctive voice.

That Justin Theroux
He's so hot.

Aforementioned rackage planted a seed of soemthing in me that makes me feel dirty to this day when I hear the name "Uma."

Hmmm. Brazil might be his signature piece in that it has his themes of the divine joy of childlike madness against brutal, mechanical, so-sane-it's-insane conformity… and of course the protagonist is doomed yet also escapes… and it is of course excessive in everything. But 12 Monkeys was his TIGHTEST movie I think, in…

YES! Cardigans do one of the things I love best. Take something poisonous and make it so shiny and sugary and tempting and cute that you don't notice the poison until it's too late. Some of their songs are COLD, evil, despairing, harrowing things that would make hipsters reflexively wank in morbid joy if they were…

I nominate Mark Eitzel. And also David Bazan, but more for lyrics than clever musical techniques.

I saw them with my wife (at the time my girlfriend, and it was our first date) in 2004 and was expecting an awkward geekfest of a show. Not really a fan but not a hater…they just never hit me on a gut level. Anyway, the show was great, fun and powerful and crazy with a tight band and lots of audience interaction. One…

That was the most spot-on and concise history of Weezer ever. WELL-played, sir!

+1 Skipskatte. File under "Young Adult Literature"… several notches above the atrocious Dan Brown but guilty of the same "search and replace" school of interchangeable thrillers. His books always seemed to be written with a sort of grim determination, as if every word were a dull, heavy brick that had to be dropped…

I think it would be fun to write and direct Signs from the aliens' point of view. A few drunk space critters get naked after a party and steal an interstellar space ship on a dare. Once they sober up they realize that they have no maps, space suits, weapons, or any idea what to do. Running out of fuel, they spot some…

Ha, film students. I saw Aguirre at the High Museum here ages ago and Herzog did a Q and A afterward. The Serious Film Students were hilariously earnest. One asked if the monkeys at the end symbolized the indigenous peoples' triumph over the conquistadores and Herzog replied that no, there were just lots of monkeys…

Man, I WANTED to love the Foos. Catchy? Check. Big riffs? Yes. Unpretentious desire to fucking rawk? Yup.

I for one have no issues with cerebral, slightly crazy, slinky sexy French artistes with a dash of the feral about them. To quote Vince, "Yowza."

It is weird that they never rocked harder. I mean REALLY weird, as in "There are a thousand producers who could have adjusted a few things in the songs and set the knobs on their amps for them to get them to sound as badass as they looked" and yet even to my elementary-school ears they sounded kind of dull. I'd heard…

In terms of Lips songs that make me go "yeah," I loves me Mountainside. Also Slow Nerve Action, and Waitin' for a Superman. Seems like every album has some moments that are just… filler.